Journalist who reported on crime attacked in Peru

Peruvian journalist Jorge Alberto Moncada Mino was attacked
by unidentified assailants in the city of Chiclayo in the northern department
of Lambayeque on May 24, according to news
reports. Moncada, who reports for the daily El Ciclón de Chiclayo and Radio Caliente, was entering a store near
his home to buy bread when two men got out of a vehicle and beat him with the
butt of a gun and a wrench. The journalist was hospitalized with several bone
fractures and wounds to his abdomen and head.

Moncada told
the local press freedom organization IPYS that his assailants warned him to
stop reporting on "Viejo Paco," (Old Paco) the alias of Ángel León Arévalo, the
alleged kingpin of the organized crime group "La Gran Familia" (The Big Family),
who was arrested and placed in preventative detention three months ago. The
journalist said he believed the attack was linked to his reporting that
questioned the thoroughness of the prosecution against Arévalo, according to news
reports. Moncada told reporters he had received dozens of anonymous
death threats via text message in the days before the attack.